Mr. Lars Himmer:

We will address this when we see that there has been an impact. I cannot guarantee that we can compensate everything in every direction, but we will live up to our responsibility. We are not running away. I and my team will work very hard to fix this. We will not run away while we do that. Our investigations are ongoing and when we learn more about what and how it happened I am certain that we will have these discussions again. I reassure the committee that we will live up to our responsibilities.

Some markets suspended sales of vehicles on 13 September 2015 and in the days afterwards. Many markets did not, and some are still selling. We looked at it carefully every day. The cars are still technically safe and roadworthy. Type approval is in place on the condition that we fix these cars. It is important to say that we still have type approval but we have to fix the cars. We suspended sales on 14 September. To put it into perspective, in Ireland, four cars and 12 vans were delivered unregistered between 1 October and 14 October 2015.